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On Friday we both head to Copenhagen for the New Life Copenhagen Festival, the arts festival surrounding COP15, which began on Monday. During our stay in Europe, we'll also be checking in on Future Arcola and a project for the 2011 Prague Quadrennial. December will be a very exciting, if not a bit chilly, month. We also have open calls for the next edition of the Quarterly and Mammut, which will be guest edited by the CSPA. As we approach the New York, we hope that your winter is cozy (for the right reasons) and that we'll be seeing you often in 2010! Ian Garrett & Miranda Wright |
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We are now offering Institutional membership to the CSPA. On top of our Quarterly, Mammut Magazine, and our annual book selection, institutional membership includes consultation where we come to you to work with you to develop practices in sustainability through your production, curriculum, operations, and communications. We’ll provide you with the information you’ll need to think critically about sustainability in the arts, and give you the tools to act! |
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INTRODUCTION TO NEW LIFE COPENHAGEN Planning or trying to figure out how to get to Copenhagen for COP15? New Life Copenhagen and Wooloo.org can help. Here’s a video introduction. |
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NO PLACE TO STAY IN COPENHAGEN? ARTISTS GET DANES TO OFFER THEIR HOMES AND HOST A FESTIVAL From 7 – 18 December, representatives from 192 nations, as well as thousands of activists and NGO organisations, will gather in Denmark for the UN Climate Change Conference. To help solve the problem of over-booked hotel accommodation, NEW LIFE COPENHAGEN is running a volunteer-based campaign to get private Danish homes to open their door to the visitors |
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NEW LIFE COPENHAGEN How do humans and animals relate to each other? In The Arts Catalysts’ Interspecies exhibition and event, seven international artists have created a range of work that explores this complex relationship. From live experiments that allow visitors to communicate with fish to a video work that explores the age-old affiliation between falconer and falcon, Interspecies brings together a number of artists working with animals and explores the boundaries of our interaction. Curious about the animal’s point of view, the artists challenge the dominant human viewpoint and aim to work in collaboration with other species. |
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HOSPITALITY AS ART Instead of inviting artists to contribute art for a traditional museum exhibition, we have chosen to utilize hospitality and the human encounter as an exhibition platform. The purpose of the festival is to create a breeding ground for alternative ways of living together. Individual solutions are not enough. In order to stop climate changes, we have to rethink our way of life collectively. |
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IMPACT BY DEGREES: COP15 ART IN WASHINGTON Waiting Room is one of the works featured in Impact By Degrees currently at the Australian Gallery of the Australian Embassy in Washington DC. It’s an exhibition of art by Australian and Australian-American media artists responding to climate change and it’’s one of the events featured on the Arts For COP15 network. http://www.impactbydegrees.net/ |
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BOB USDIN OF SHOWMAN FABRICATORS ANNOUNCES FIRST LDI GREEN AWARDS Bob Usdin of Showman Fabricators, who organized LDI Green Day and the awards for best green product and best green production at this last year’s show in Orlando, is seen here announcing the recipients of those awards. Green Day was a full day dedicated to what the industry is doing—and can do—to reduce its carbon footprint and be environmentally smart. A special full-day conference organized in conjunction with Showman Fabricators, as LDI went "green."
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FUTURE ARCOLA KICKS OFF Monday 16 November 2009 was a date to remember : the first official kick-off meeting for the Future Arcola theatre was held, appropriately, in the current Arcola bar! After two years of meetings and relationship building on all fronts, the show is finally on the road… and now we have three weeks to present our plans for taking the project to RIBA stage B, i.e. feasibility design stage. A presentation on Future Arcola is going to be made at City Hall on December 15th. |
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VIDEO CHAT IN ARTISTIC ENDEAVORS With the ubiquity of broadband connections, more and more people seem to be relying on video conference/chat technology to get other busy, high profile, greener guests to be able to be in two spaces at the same time. And, as it tends to shake out, the resident technophile/ show technologist, I get the pleasure of making a lot of them work. In this article I explore the ins and outs of current video chat technology in practice. |
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NEW MEXICO ART & ECOLOGY BFA AND MFA PROGRAM The University of New Mexico has a BFA and MFA program in art and ecology. I’m not sure when it started, but from their website, it seems that the program builds on previous eco-art classes and the university’s Land Arts of the American West program. |
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CSPA QUARTERLY CALLS FOR INTERNATIONAL SUBMISSIONS The second edition of the CSPA Quarterly is now open for submissions. This issue will focus on international eco-policy, policy’s effect on the arts, and the arts’ effect on policy. The issue will feature news and events from COP15, the UN Conference on Climate Change in Copenhagen this December. Articles from all nations are welcome! The deadline for consideration is December 22, 2009. |
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MAMMUT MAGAZINE #4 :: CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS The fourth issue of Mammut Magazine will investigate the effects of climate change on the human psyche, focusing on a new definition of sadness called "solastalgia." Coined by Australian philosopher Glenn Albrecht, it refers to a form of homesickness felt while still at home, particularly as it refers to the perceived change in one's home environment caused by climate change. A parallel of sorts to nostalgia, solastalgia was created by combining the Latin words solacium, meaning comfort, and algia, meaning pain. Proposal deadline: January 15, 2010 |
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CULTURE|FUTURES SYMPOSIUM December 7-9, 2009 Play a lead role in expanding cultural engagement to sustain human and all life. Culture|Futures is an expanding positive spiral of engagement of cultural actors around the world who are moved to engage their work and creativity to sustain human and all life.The cultural sector has a unique part to play in creating an Ecological Age by 2050. It is trusted, collaborative, interactive and transformative - and it is everywhere in all communities, in rich and diverse shapes and forms. |
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NEW LIFE COPENHAGEN December 7-18, 2009 How do humans and animals relate to each other? In The Arts Catalysts’ Interspecies exhibition and event, seven international artists have created a range of work that explores this complex relationship. From live experiments that allow visitors to communicate with fish to a video work that explores the age-old affiliation between falconer and falcon, Interspecies brings together a number of artists working with animals and explores the boundaries of our interaction. Curious about the animal’s point of view, the artists challenge the dominant human viewpoint and aim to work in collaboration with other species. |
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RETHINK - Contemporary Art & Climate Change October 31, 2009 to December 31, 2009 RETHINK — Contemporary Art & Climate Change is an exhibition of 25 works created by trendsetting Nordic and international contemporary artists working in the intersection between art, culture and climate change. The exhibition is a result of a cooperation between the National Gallery of Denmark, Den Frie Centre of Contemporary Art, Nikolaj Copenhagen Contemporary Art Center and the Alexandra Institute and will present works of Tomas Saraceno (AR), Henrik HÂkansson (SE), the Icelandic Love Corporation (IS), Superflex (DK), Eke Bright Ugochukwu (NG), Olafur Eliasson (IS/DK) and many others. |
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